A new portrait of Klashy boy. It must be spring, I am using colour!

A start of an interesting new project - body landscapes.

My today's research into the world of abject art lead me from Viennese Actionists with artists like Otto Muehl and Gunter Brus to the Chinese baby eating performer Zhu Yu. The latter somehow linked me to the video below, which undoubtably cannot be called art, but nevertheless is an interesting watch. It certainly underlines the cultural differences between the East and the West.

Today I've created a couple of 'body projections' with the use of some landscape shots taken during my afternoon walk.

I haven't been absolutely useless during the month of February. I have to admit, I haven't read much, as I have been sleeping a lot, but I have managed to complete a small personal project, I have started some experimentations with using cyanotypes on alternative materials and I even managed to get to National Portrait Gallery to see David Bailey's 'Stardust' (totally worth the visit!).

Today, I will present my little personal project - You take my breath away. This project focuses on my illness and its overwhelming influence on my everyday life. I thought that such important part of me deserves a little more attention than just the odd complaint or a whinge.
The project is separated into three parts - the physical pain, the illnesses direct influence on my daily life and the psychological experience the illness often presents.  I believe this project will lead to a creation of a more specific body of work concentrating purely on pain and maybe even only on the experience of migraine (pic1).

I am too sick to write anything interesting, so here is a pretty picture instead...

It has been a long time since I thought about Cymatics. I am currently in the process of creating a macro setup around my Xpro 1 with the use of some vintage bellows and a Soviet M42 lens. I have therefore started thinking about the possible subjects and yet again the question of picturing the sound came back to life. Here is a great video by Dr. Hans Jenny, the main name in the field of Cymatics. I do have his book, which unfortunately took a back seat when I was studying with OCA. As I have no course books to attend to at the moment, I think this could be my next read after the 'War Photographer'.....